We are looking for an experienced and team-oriented Senior DevOps Engineer to join our DevOps team and help us improve the resilience and performance of the Arbor platform, enabling the business to rapidly scale. The remit and focus of the role is to use metrics and tooling to collaborate with the solution architect and engineering teams to continuously fix and/or improve the architecture, infrastructure and the way we work. It’s a broad and exciting role, so we’re looking for someone up for a challenge - if you’re a highly technical and diligent Engineer, this is the role for you.
Key Responsibilities
Work with the Head of Platform and Head of SRE to identify improvements within the platform infrastructure and implement plans to address
Work with the Platform teams to improve the maturity of all components within the system, including ensuring High Availability, and adequate testing and DR plans
Contribute to improving our CI/CD pipelines and providing patterns of deployment
Assist in incident response and resolution, and subsequent post-mortems and retrospectives
Participate in tech-talks and team based learning to ensure knowledge is spread
Document obsessively, relying on Playbooks/Runbooks and systems documentation to aid knowledge transfer
6-12 years of experience
Extensive experience of DevOps Engineering and operating a large scale platform
Extensive experience of distributed cloud systems, and specifically Amazon Web Services
Extensive experience of Infrastructure as Code tooling, such as Terraform, Ansible, Cloudformation etc
Understanding of relational database technologies and their cloud versions (e.g. AWS Aurora)
Experience with messaging and distributed asynchronous workloads
Experience with nginx or similar technologies
Experience with DataDog, Prometheus or similar tools
A positive and proactive attitude to problem solving
A team player, willing to muck in and help others when needed, driven personality who asks questions and actively participates i